"FAMILY FASHION"

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 5

"FAMILY FASHION"

Husband's Harsh Comment On Wife's Sorry Tale NO HOPE OFM# START

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) | She: "I've been married just over five years, and I § 1 can't put up with it any longer. .He starts picking 1 j j arguments and rows. His drinking 1 is the trouble." j | He: "It's the fashion m her family to get. main- | j tenance. Her sister has got it, and she is paving the j 1 way for her sister-in-law. She wants to be m the fash- § I ion. She doesn't like to be out of the running." ■[■

niiiiimiiiimimmnimimKUHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiHmiiiiiiiiii FOR all her allegations of cruelty and habitual drunkenness, , how-, ever, the wife left the court no. better off, and crying, m reply to the advice of Mr. C.utten, S.M., -to _ try to patch up the marriage Wangle, that a reconciliation was •impossible. 1 .. She was Janet Moore,', a ■slight," palefaced woman of about thirty years/ and she did not spare, her . husband,.. Thomas Joseph Moore, . when she. told her tale to the prompting of the magistrate. She was unrepresented by counsel, and she left her two little children m the charge, of a friend m the body of the court, when she stepped into the witness-box. When her husband was invited by the bench f to ask his wife questions, , he went straight to the point. "Is it not the truth that I asked you to keep aAvay from associations up the road? And isn't it a fact that it is the fashion m your family to get maintenance?" he asked. The wife could not answer, the questions quickly enough to suit her, and the result was that her .words were last to the court m . a babble, with her husband having a good deal to say at the same tinie. "Now, then, I just want questions and answers," said the magistrate, and the two subsided.: • ]. \ In explanation of her'husband's'reference to ."associations, up the road," the woman . was given leave" to have her sayl ■- ■ ■ "He didn't like me going to the woman's place," she said, and then hurried on to add* "but she, is a decent woman. She has always been d.ecent to me, so I don't see why I should keep away. He blamed me about other men> too, and- that is perfectly untrue." " >"I can't . put up with it any* longer," she : reiterated as she left the .box. .' "Well, what' have you got -to say

immmummiimiiimiiimmmiiiiiumim'mimimmummmimmmimiH about ,it?" asked the magistrate of Moore, and the husband, leaning heavily on the rail of- the witness-box, made his statement -m a tired voice. -."Only just this," he' replied.' "She wants to be m the fashion with the rest of her family. Her sister has got /maintenance and her siste.l'-in-law wants it, too.' My wife is paving the way for her." ■ . ' ... His Wdrship: What have you to say about the question of drink? — I haven't had a 'drink since June. When the magistrate reminded Trim that his . wife , had said that he had come home drunk just before Christmas, Moore replied that she was not telling the truth, "She would say anything now," he said. Moore stated that his wife and he had argued because she had refused to do as he wished, but Mrs. Moore had something to say from the body of the court. "Once it was because I refused to go to the hospital to see a Avoirian who had assaulted m.c," was the reason she gave. ■".■•■ Moore, m reply to the bench, said that he had nothing to say m reply to his wife's statement. , ; "She's had "a good schooling ' from her sister and her- sister-in-law. She's telling lies," he- said. .The magistrate suggested that the parties should try to live quietly 1 again. as man and wife, and that she give him another chance, but Mrs. Moore was definite m her refusal. ■ ''But I've tried, ' your worship. I've given him five years of chances," she cried. ■■','. / "Well, you liave another try and see if you can't make a go of it," advised the bench as man and wife left the court, but Mrs. Moore 'had' the last word. . • ■ "I can't'; your worship, it's no good," were her parting words.